Moara Passoni is a writer-director named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and winner of the Milena Jelinek Memorial Award for her MFA in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her short film "My Mother is a Cow" premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won Best Short at Bafici and Best Directing at the Cyprus International Short Film Festival, and screened at over 30 festivals worldwide. "Extase", her first non-fiction feature film, premiered in the main competition of CPH:DOX 2020, which hallmarked Moara as "one of the great names of today". The film screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021, Visions Du Réel 2020 among others, receiving fabulous critiques and winning several awards, including the Prix D'Innovation Daniel Langlois at Festival Du Cinema Nouveau, the Jury Award for best newcomers at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Best Film Young Jury Award at Cinema Jove. She served as a writer and producer for the Academy Award Nominee and Peabody winner "The Edge Of Democracy'', for which she was nominated for best narration/writing by The Critics' Choice Awards and the International Documentary Association. Moara graduated in Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Sciences at the University of São Paulo, studied Dance & Performance at PUC/SP in addition to Philosophy & Aesthetics at Paris 8. After finishing a master's in Film & Documentary at Unicamp, she joined the MFA in Screenwriting-Directing at Columbia University. Passoni works between Brazil and the U.S., and is developing a narrative TV series and her debut fiction feature.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer and writer
- 3 on MovieCove
What are Moara Passoni's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Bonds.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
A split, not a type: Resolved 0 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Moara Passoni's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, on Netflix (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Moara Passoni's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
3 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
The Edge of Democracy(2019)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Elena(2012)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Career shape
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles from 2012 to 2024.
Awards
Nominated for a Venice award in 2024, Best Short Film.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Moara Passoni's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 93rd percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 93rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 3 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser2
Reviewers score the plot and story 68/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 73, detractors 20. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Moara Passoni work with?
People who share at least 2 of Moara Passoni's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Petra Costa shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Petra CostaShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019), Elena (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Petra Costa
Writers
- David BarkerShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with David Barker
Actors
- Jair BolsonaroShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Jair Bolsonaro
- Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Cinematographers and editors
- Tina BazShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019), Elena (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Tina Baz
- Bruno LaseviciusShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Bruno Lasevicius
- Eduardo GripaShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Eduardo Gripa
- João AtalaShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with João Atala
Producers
- Maxyne FranklinShared titles: Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), The Edge of Democracy (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Maxyne Franklin
- Camila GaglianoneShared titles: The Edge of Democracy (2019), Elena (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Camila Gaglianone
- Sara DosaShared titles: The Edge of Democracy (2019), Elena (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Sara Dosa
- Tiago PavanShared titles: The Edge of Democracy (2019), Elena (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Tiago Pavan